Wait,Wait..Don't tell me (Stamp edition)

Here's another to try:

Stolzpup, could your top one be Afghanistan 212?  2pa Postal card stamp?  It sorta looks like the too tiny illustration for that issue in Scott's.

Why the different stamps? What's the story?

local plates and Perkins Bacon. 

For economic reasons I believe. Though I'm not 100% sure

With the increased postage rates,  letters soon cost 1. 1/2d ,  When much larger quantities were required after rates increased,
the Government's recess machine did not have the output to cope with the demand, and a change to surface printing was necessary.

A Plate was ordered from England.

Prior to the arrival of the plate from London, another surface plate was made locally, this was much cruder in appearance and usually had a diamond pattern in the background.

The black 1.1/2d did not show postmarks well, so was later changed to brown. 

(which is extraordinary, after 70 years of stamp production, as well as known  problems with the penny black,  why they chose that colour is beyond me,
as with modern stamps, designers should realise GOLD is a colour to be avoided, yet still they come)

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O.K., Today's unknown is a little easier.

What scene is being depicted here?

Yesterdays's unknown is still available.

No, but a clue- the inscription should read inside the triangle- at least for the stamp I think it is-
"Hakum Soria Arabie".

It almost looks like the 1920 overprint found on revenue stamps...the closest stamp I see in Scott is #83, Syria | Arabian Government. Beyond that, I cannot guess.

I don't recall that I have any of these overprints, so I'll have to rectify that at some point. I'm going to check a couple more catalogues to see what I see.

Skipping back to the Arabia Kingdom in Syria for a moment, if I'm reading Yvert right (never a sure thing), the triangle is accompanied by the revaluing overprint.  Here is Yvert's illustration of the overprint for 2 mills:


Looks like a match to me, no?  So this would be Kingdom of Syria YV#70, issued in 1920.

Zuzu- you got it! 

I was struck by how medieval the whole scene looked (except for the glasses), and yet this occurred in 1939. 

It appears to be Belgium's 20c violet & redsemipostal issued 3Oct1914 (Scott B30; Merode Monument) but I don't know if it is genuine or counterfeit (likely the latter if Scott's assertion that 90% of the B28-30s on the market are counterfeit is accurate).

You got it tomiseksj - it is indeed a forgery of the Scott 30.

The website I linked to in the last post gives the specifics. It is the most common forgery with an "O" for the "Q"in BELGIQUE.